Can you tell a “professional visitor” from “someone who really wants to get business done?”

Have you ever met someone, had a brief discussion, then afterwards wondered . . .

· What was her/his name again?

· What did he/she say she did?

· Why would I care?

· Did he/she want something?

There are those that dive into a well-rehearsed elevator pitch....like a runaway train, full speed ahead without regard or understanding of where they are going.

Some people believe in the “throw enough crap at the wall something will stick” approach to selling. But when you are selling yourself, what you do or how you get it done, this method can just leave a real mess to clean up later.

Many business professionals look for business in an Apple Orchard when they should be in the Orange Grove. Would you know if you were in the right place?

When marketing your business to your peers, associates and potential clients they need to be excited to do business with you. Not just know what you do.

In this 3.5 – 4 hour workshop:

· You will learn how to market your business and build a team of strategic sales professionals that work together.

· Take a quick tour of where you are at now.

· Map out your business and strategic partners - creating clarity like never before.

· Create a concise marketing plan and set goals.

· Learn how to effectively work an event and capitalize on every opportunity.

· Many people think business networking is Facebook, LinkedIn or You Tube what role do they play in making connections?

· We will tie in Social Networking with Business Conventional Networking and how they work together.

We will learn how to capitalize on the 78% peer recommendation for your products and services.

After this workshop you will have a clear, concise understanding of how to market and communicate your business.

Where does your job rank on this best-paying jobs list?If you want to make the big bucks, a career in health care is what you need in order to do that.
According to U.S. News & World Report, occupations in health care are promising due to a combination of high salaries and low unemployment rates. Health care jobs took 44 of the 100 spots in the best jobs ranking and the majority of the best-paying jobs in that ranking, officials said.
"Health care occupations continue to dominate the U.S. News 2019 Best Jobs rankings, with demand in the field highest…

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:21:00 +0000Flight or fright? Here's where KCI's biggest airlines rank when it comes to passenger complaintsU.S. airlines took a beating in early 2018 amid several high-profile clashes with disgruntled passengers, and they appear to have responded accordingly.
Complaints lodged against major U.S. air carriers hit a five-month low of 635 incidents in October, the most-recent reporting period available, and were down roughly 12 percent on a per-passenger basis when compared to the same 31-day span in 2017. The declines came following a flurry of disputes that crested in April 2017 when security personnel…

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 18:12:00 +0000ESPN: Mahomes could land NFL's first $200M contract deal in 2020Quarterback Patrick Mahomes may have just lost his first AFC Championship game, but the Kansas City Chiefs must believe the wunderkind will be the next Tom Brady.
According to ESPN writer Adam Schefter's sources, the team is expected to offer Mahomes the National Football League's first $200 million contract at the end of the next season. A deal can't be signed until 2020 when the now 23-year-old becomes eligible for a contract extension.
ESPN reports that details on "how the deal is structured…

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:11:04 +00005 good reads: Catch up on the big news — then go deeperRarely is the story the story. That is, we often react to larger events by writing the hard news story — A sold to B for X, or C stepped down and will be succeeded by D — and then come back with explanation — Here’s what B plans to do after its big acquisition; here’s why C left.
There were a number of instances in the past week where we delivered this one-two punch of coverage. If you missed the initial news, you should go back and get yourself current.
But if you stopped, or stop, there,…

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:00:00 +0000Judge orders receiver for hospital that had been run by NKC companyA judge appointed a receiver to run a rural Kansas hospital, one of a number operated by a North Kansas City company that have shown signs of financial trouble.
A Marion County, Kan., judge found Friday that there could be “immediate and irreparable harm” to Hillsboro Community Hospital if a receiver was not appointed to oversee operations, KCUR reports. The Hillsboro hospital had been run by EmpowerHMS, a company that had purchased distressed rural hospitals with the promise of turning them…

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:30:00 +0000KC's FitBark may be scrappy but it's landing big partnershipsFitBark Inc. has embraced a scrappy startup mindset, intentionally seeking little outside investment in order to retain control of its product roadmap and deliver what consumers want. The company's attentiveness to its user base and refusal to cut corners is paying off, resulting in deals with Fitbit and Animal Planet's "My Big Fat Pet Makeover."
"Four years ago, partners or potential investors were asking us, 'Will Fitbit sue you guys? Will Fitbit complain about this?'" co-founder and CEO Davide…

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 10:00:00 +0000State Street will lay off 1,500 in turn toward automation; effect on KC is unclearState Street Corp. plans to lay off approximately 1,500 employees in “high-cost locations" and ramp up efforts to automate its services to clients, the company said Friday.
State Street has 1,220 full-time-equivalent employees in the Kansas City area, ranking it No. 33 on the Kansas City Business Journal's List of private-sector employers.
The newly announced layoffs go far beyond the job cuts to senior management reported by the Boston Business Journal earlier this month. The senior managers…

Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:50:07 +0000Feds allege OP man faked veteran ownership to win $40M in contractsTroy Bechtel, of Overland Park, has been charged with two counts of major program fraud against the United States and two counts of lying to federal investigators.
The charges stem from a Merriam construction company called United Medical Design Builders LLC, which was awarded about $40 million in contracts from the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business program.
The indictment alleges Bechtel ran the daily operations of the company, which was supposed to be controlled by an actual service-disabled…